The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1887-04-16
INDUSTRIAL IMPORT.

In many parts of France heavy ma.
,chinery is run by artesian well power
The deeper the well the greater the pres
sure
IT has been discovered that drill points
heated to a cherry red, and tempered by
being driven into a bar of lead, will bore
through the hardest steel or plate glass
without perceptbly bunting.
THE United States consumes annually
A50O00O tins OF French sardines. The
number of herring consumed is said to be
100000 These are, for the most, the
produet of the State Of Maine
TEE Island Of Borneo has entered the
lists as tobacco-producing land. A large
shipment to England recently met with
Immediate sale and great favor. The
product vies with that of Sumatra as a
}cigar material.
THREAD FOR the manufacture of lace is
made largely in Nottingham. The finer
grades for the manufacture of Brussels
Lace is made by hand in that city; it is
spun from the finest fax and as high as
twenty five hundred dollars per pound has
been paid Tor it.
E: 10 GET the oil out of g. grindstone make
1.-THE Stone as hot as safety will permit, and
then cover it with a paste of whiting and
water. The mixture will soon become
filled with oil, when it may be scraped off
and the process repeated until all the oil is
extracted.
JAPAN grows enormous quantities OF
sorghum cane, and large quantities of
formulated sugar have been made from it.
1.-The product for one year was estimated at
this country is rice. One-half the entire
t1oo ~ dow, ic hair do
'-oted to it's growth
a MANUFACTURERS journal states that
the first practical demonstration OF the use
lof wood in the manufacture of paper oc-
'curred in the year 1926 In that year a
paper firm in Turin discovered method of
making paper from the thin bark of trees.
In 1888 the process Of paper making from
wood pulp was discovered.
The first circular saw known to mankind,
Bays a Boston paper: was hammered out al
;the anvil sixty years ago by Benjamin
Cummings, at Burtonsyille, n. Y. This
imam was an inventor, soldier of the war
;of 1912 and civil engineer, and aided in
the construction of the first ten miles of
railway in the United States.
A MECHANISM has come to notice for the
purpose of reducing to pulverized state
rock, iron, phosphates. mica or any other
hard or soft subs lance, by the action Of
air set in motion similar to the motion of a
Cyclone the air is confined in an iron
chamber somewhatresembl bling an ordinary
furnace, and the device is said to be mex
pensive, though important as poin ting to:a
revolution in the grinding operations in
the trades.
/. WOODEN tanks may be rendered capable
OF withstanding the effects Of nitric Or sui
phuric acids by the following methods:
Cover the inside with parafine; go over
the inside with sadiron heated to the
temperature used in ironing clothes; melt
the parafine under the iron so as to drive it
into the wood as much as possible; then
with cooler iron melt on coat thick
enough to completely cover the wood.
ONE of the Industries of Southern Cali
fornia is the production OF honey. On the
slopes and in the canyons of the Sierra
Madre Mountains are numerous bee
ranches" on which are erected any num-
Der Of Islands" or 'sgums," and in these is
deposited the fruit of the labors of the
bees among the fragrant white sage, which
plentifully abounds. The honey, after ex-
traction, is sold at q very low price, often
reaching as low as three cents pound.